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Examples
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I see the paid company snakeoil salesmen and Street Teamers are here posting in mass, trying to scare people as always.
Top Dem aide: 'Significant policy issues' could still derail deal 2009
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Obama's press conference tonight was a classic depiction of a slippery snakeoil salesman.
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Turned out he was just another snakeoil salesman with an overly ambitious and grasping spouse.
The Weight of Expectation Dungeekin 2009
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Although people really, really, want to believe they have some control over their lives and so are willing to buy a lot of snakeoil.
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Dobson is a snakeoil salesman selling “Jesus” and and “Morality” like a commodity.
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Well here is an oxymoron, Republicans slam Democrats over jobs, hey morons, Bush caused all this, why do you think Republicans have lost all credibility, on top of that Republicans are playing obstructionists from job creation to healthcare, so the snakeoil salesman himsel Boner better shut the heck up.
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Will they embrace their corporate overlords an empty their pockets to these snakeoil salesmen with smiles on their toothless faces?
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Even though everything about him reeks of fuck-up and snakeoil salesmen, he still manages to find an audience.
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Obama is a slick operator, a fraud, an empty suit, a snakeoil salesman. —
Obama Responds to FISA Protest on His Web Site - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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The only thing scarier than BaWackjob Obama as a president is his loonie followers who buy into his snakeoil salesman spiel.
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